Detection of QTL for growth rate in the blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra Leach) using selective DNA pooling

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The authors sincerely thank Mark Gervis and Anton Krsinich from Southern Ocean Mariculture who maintained and raised the abalone families used in this study. Nathan O'Mahoney and Steve Leporati assisted in the collection of phenotypic data. Funding for this research was provided by the Australian Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (project number 2002/202) and Fisheries Victoria. Matthew Baranski was supported by an Australia Postgraduate Award through Deakin University, with additional funding from the Department of Primary Industries.